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- Path: sparky!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Productivity != SPECmarks, crap-compatibility - what for? (Was: Re: What's in a name?)
- Message-ID: <1329@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 17:39:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.183334.19342@crd.ge.com>
- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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- davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- :
- : People upgrade because they don't want to wait. There are limits to
- : how fast a computer needs to be *for a given task*, if the output if
- : delivered in realtime to a human. That limit is "how fast can the output
- : device process the info?"
- :
- : If people feel that they are waiting for output they will want a
- : faster machine. Waiting for a computer is not a productive thing to do.
-
- A faster machine does not mean a new machine. It could mean increasing
- the amount or memory, a faster disk, or any number of things.
-
- My point was that this need to constantly purchase "newer, faster, better"
- processors is created by the media and salescritters... they prey upon the
- emotions of the consumer, convincing him that unless he upgrades his antiquated
- system, a horrible fate awaits him. Their chant is well known: "no longer in
- production", "no longer supported", "too slow to run your software". The
- bottom line is that the customer is held hostage to the very machine that was
- supposed to set him free.
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- Mike Stefanik mike@pacsoft.com ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike (+1 714 681 2623)
- Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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